This season was going to be the last for the Hill Cumorah Pageant, but it's yet another arts-related casualty of the coronavirus pandemic.
The final season instead will run in July 2021, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Thursday.
In a statement, pageant president Neil Pitts said now "'just isn't the time" to hold an event that attracts thousands of people to the Palmyra area.
“We are happy to know that it has been moved to another year," Pitts said. "It would have been heartbreaking to have ended with a cancellation.”
The pageant has been staged annually since 1937. The church announced in 2018 that it would halt production on several of its large-scale productions, including the Hill Cumorah Pageant.
The final pageant will run July 8-10 and 13-17, 2021.
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